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DJ Knobs. Name and shame.
Posted by Mr Drayton on 27 September 2009 - 11:09am.
During the golden age of broadcasting, when Disc Jockeys were God, several of them attempted to emulate the very people who were the filling in their ego sandwich. They released records.
Who was the worst offender? My vote goes to Mike Read. Not only would he name-drop Cliff at any opportunity, he’d get his guitar out on Saturday Superstore. Thankfully his show Oscar closed after one night.
He is the ultimate DJ knob.
Unless of course, you know better.
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No contest.
The Andy William of Radio One was indeed Tony Blackburn. I have many a single and LP by this wizard of the airwaves. Here is a quick YouTube link - embedding disabled by request but you can still click and watch.
Here's another WTF moment!
Don't forget this classic
Laurie Lingo and the Dipsticks (AKA Dave Lee Travis (hairy cornflake) and Paul Burnett
or Mr. Wogan...
The ILR chaps didn't hang about either
Yikes.
In their defence...
...appalling as they are at it, they, at least, love music enough to make their own. I'll not try to defend them on quality control grounds, but they aren't the worst kind of DJ Knob to my mind.
That accolade is reserved permanently for "People want to listen to me, not to the music" types, who I always doubt actually own any records/cds and do not have "music in their soul".
Bruno Brookes
took some beating in the knob end stakes
Just
for trying to steal Whispering Bob's record collection he should be damned for all time. And didn't he allegedly get friends to pay to hear his records as a kid?
Although mistakenly playing the album version of RATM's 'Killing In the Name' on daytime radio is a saving grace.
I specifically remember
the RATM incident, on a R1 Sunday chart rundown.
I was killing myself laughing as the shouty, denoumnent of the unexpurgated album version of the song kicked in. There was just an embarrassed pause aferwards, before Brookes tried to continue as if nothing had happened. Comedy gold.
crap band
crap tune, but Respeck!
I remember a similar one..
Kev Greening played the wrong version of Fun Lovin' Criminal.
Didn't notice because the studio monitors were turned down.
Because the R1 boss had popped in to tell him what a great job he was doing..
Let's See
1)Ego the Size of Greenland. Check
2)Totally out of touch with the modern world. Check
3)Name dropping.. check
4)a sense of humour only they find amusing.. check
5)So self important it beggars belief...Check
6)Stupid Self-Given Nicknames...Double Check
7)Thinks W.O.L.D was written about them..Check
Ladies and Gentleman Mr David Patrick Griffin
Ok then
DLT;Dave Lee Travis;The Hairy whatever,and In my House he was known as The Human Anesthetic
Spot on, Paul. Spot on.
What summed him up was the time he got "Gotcha'd" by Noel Edmonds. It showed what a humourless and unpleasant man he is. The icing on the cake was that, uniquely amongst all the slebs "done" by Noel, he had to get Noel back because, of course, they're such great mates and such wacky, crazy guys. Not because he's a miserable git and livid that his former colleague has got one over on him and cut through his veneer of niceness. Of course not.
Tosser.
DLT
A pseudonym! One lives and learns.
I don't see why he changed his name. The change name seems no better / worse than his original name. However had he been known as DPG, John Peel, when signing off and reminding us at what time Radio 1 was restarting couldn't have referred to him as DoLT followed at 9 by Simon Beast.
A pseudonym!
Unlike John Peel?
Harsh!
but true
yours faithfully
James Blast
My surprise
is that I never knew until now. Maybe you did and I bow to your investigative prowess.
However it has been common knowledge that John Peel was a pseudonym pretty much as long as I've known about JP.
The change from Ravenscroft to Peel made it less of a mouthful. The change to DLT however is from one mundane name to another. Why bother is what I'm asking?
Good Grief!
Carl Man!
check in at KoC, I'll get Margrave of the Marshes to ye
Margrave Of The Marshes
The GLW has a copy, but has lent it to someone.
Sorry, not trying to score a point off you there, but
While being an admirer of Mr Ravenscroft, it always seemed odd that he stuck with his pseudonym. In a way, because DLT was more of an obvious showbiz type, I can see why he changed his name to something groovier.
Was he John Ravenscroft
when he was the resident Fabs expert on a radio station in Dallas (i think).
I seem to remember from his 'This Is Your Life' a clip of him from those days and he pronounced his surname as two words. Guess it made him more jolly British, don't you know.
Almost
The Dallas station insisted he be called Ravencroft. Who knows why they thought dropping the S made such a difference.
You're right
althou you couldn't tell from the picture
Keith Moon
Once did a radio show on Wunnerful R1 as Dave O'Leary Tomkins. Fact that.
new
What about Noel Edmunds and Mr Blobby.
The Shirehorses were probably the best of this genre.
Drat
Knew there'd be a flaw in my defence somewhere...forgot about "Mr Blobby"
that Dylan DJ bloke's
made a few ellpees, or so I've heard
really ?
Well, I paid good money to see him earlier this year, singing some songs at the NIA in Birmingham, and it was even more disappointing than the time when I walked to Rutherglen to see a Radio 1 Roadshow, in 1975. That featured the above-mentioned Toe-Knee Black-Bum, broadcasting from a caravan. The rain starting tipping down as the "show" started, and got heavier as the afternoon went on. He did little to lift the mood of the crowd.
Dylan should stick to the radio - he's quite good there.
Toe-Knee Black-Burn
Toe-Knee Black-Burn, God !, That awful record by Binky Baker,who is the dad of my friend Lucy,Whose mum is ?..............
Would that be
a certain Annie Nightingale?
(Record token winner - Ed.)
in the Post,Beany
Lucy Wilks nee Nightingale
and Lucy's Brother is/was Primal Scream's manager. horrible piece of work.
Ooh! Gary Davies!
Willie on the plonker? And that hair/tan combo?
Peter Powell
Nothing more to say really!
great
mate?
The Ballet
Peter Powell had an irritating habit of changing band's names hence Spandau Ballet would become "The Ballet".
Ok. Let's flip this around.
Apart from the sainted JP, who was there on Radio 1 in the early to mid 80's who wasn't a complete tit? Steve Wright was great for a long time; let us not be blinded by the anodyne toss he rolls out now. Then there was.. er..
Kid Jensen? "Me" Mark Page?
Let's be honest, The Nation's Favourite was a hotbed of rampant onanists.
Late 70s / early 80s I remember two:
Richard Skinner & Anne Nightingale.
The former was certainly no worse than Kid J, and the latter used to do a kind of agony aunt slot which (as a teenager at the time) I found sometimes quite touching & relevant.
Also, (and I really need to lower my voice here), Mr Edmonds did actually use to be quite amusing on his Sunday morning show.
The late Roger Scott
was a decent enough DJ.
Simon Bates - not quite a recording career but ...
... the certificate warnings he used to present at the start of videos are surely worth dragging into this thread? Is it just me or does the phrase "sexual swear-words" still have a certain resonance?
You are not alone
and of couzse Enfield wasn't far behind
Scott Mills
Ghastly
Here's one from a 60's Dutch DJ
The fuzz bass part is actually pretty cool.